To put the looper executable in your $PATH, add the following line to your .bashrc or .profile:

exportPATH=~/.local/bin:$PATH

Now, to test looper, follow the commands in the Hello, Looper! example repository. Details are located in the README file; Briefly, just run these 5 lines of code and you’re running your first looper project!

# Install the latest version of looper:pipinstall--userhttps://github.com/pepkit/looper/zipball/master# download and unzip this repositorywgethttps://github.com/databio/hello_looper/archive/master.zipunzipmaster.zip# Run it:cdhello_looper-masterlooperrunproject_config.yaml

Hint

If the looper executable isn’t in your path, add it with exportPATH=~/.local/bin:$PATH.